Oil lamp
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1815-1835
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. ( 29.8 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; spherical font with vertical rim and mercurial ring joined by large annular wafer to hollow cylindrical stem with two decorative bands of trailed and crimped glass joined by large annular wafer to square domed (lemon squeezer) base with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1092
Gallery Label:
Mercurial rings are often attributed to South Boston Glass Works or the Phoenix Glass Works, both of Boston, MA.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
24187
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Toddy plate
Classification:
Date:
1830-1845
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. ( 1.9 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass toddy plate; circular form with edge of alternating scallops and points; American eagle with shield on breast, wings spread, clutching arrows and laurel branch, in center of well, within beaded ring and grapevine wreath; on interior rim, on stippled ground, four motifs of stylized leaves and scrolls flanking trapezoidal shape, small stars between (Lee-Rose 807).
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1940.446
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
24186
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamps (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1840-1860
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 4 in. ( 22.2 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Pair of colorless pressed lead glass oil lamps; cylindrical font with domed top and pressed decoration consisting of eight alternating bands, half pairs of circles and half diamond mesh; font attached with wafer to hexagonal base with hexagonal cushioned knop stem; brass collar.
Object Number:
INV.512ab
Gallery Label:
The domed top of this lamp's font was formed by using the Magoun Patent method. This method, invented by Joseph Magoun of the New England Glass Company in 1847, eliminated moldmarks by using a hinged, three-part mold to form the sides of the font and a one-piece cylindrical mold to form a cylinder that was then tooled to form the dome.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
24184
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. ( 1.3 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Pale blue (opalescent) pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form of irregular circumference with narrow flaring rim and deep well; relief pattern of American eagle with wings spread and head raised to right, clutching arrows, within beaded circle, surrounded with concentric rings, on exterior well; relief design of flowering vine on interior rim (Lee-Rose 650).
Credit Line:
Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number:
1983.38
Gallery Label:
Jane Spilman suggests that this cup plate was probably manufactured at either the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts, or the New England Glass Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts (See Publications).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
24183
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
1840-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. ( 1.3 x 8.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with edge of alternating bulls' eyes and points; harp at center of well, framed by laurel branches, with star-like flower at top right; vine of three-leafed clover running along interior rim, on stippled ground (Lee-Rose 686).
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1940.432
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24182
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bellows flask
Classification:
Date:
1820-1860
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 22.2 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown glass (possibly lead) flask in the shape of bellows with tapered cylindrical neck with uptooled and flattened string rim, ovoid body with applied collar band at base of neck, bands of trailed decoration crimped into parallel notches on each of the four edges and at center of one side, indented prunt at center of opposite side, and two applied handles at base.
Object Number:
INV.12966
Gallery Label:
Bellows bottles, sometimes of colored glass with loop decoration and with or without feet, were made as whimseys by glassmakers in England and America between 1820 and 1900.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
24181
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sauce plate
Classification:
Date:
1835-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. ( 1.9 x 13.3 cm )
Description:
Opalescent pressed lead glass plate; circular form with scalloped edge; rim decorated with band of linked patterned circles; center decorated with patterned nine-pointed star.
Object Number:
INV.3701
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24180
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flask: clear with white swirl pattern
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/16 in. ( 16.5 x 10.2 x 2.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown lead glass flask with short cylindrical neck, compressed oval body, and ground pontil mark decorated with applied opaque white threads pulled into loop pattern and marvered.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.457
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
24179
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick: milky white
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. ( 7.3 x 6 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed lead glass candlestick; cup has flaring scalloped rim and cylindrical, vertically ribbed exterior; stem has wide band of wavy vertical ribs; circular base with scalloping ribs radiating from center.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.756b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
24178
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1821-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 3 in. ( 19 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Deep olive green glass bottle blown in three-part Ricketts-type mold with base molded separately; with two-part finish, tapered neck, rounded shoulder with inscription "PATENT," cylindrical body, and deep circular depression in base.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1657
Marks:
in relief: on shoulder: "PATENT"
Gallery Label:
A patent was granted to Henry Ricketts in 1821 for his three-part bottle mold which included a fourth mold part, i.e. a base-molding section (Great Britain Patent Office 1857). English and American glasshouses used molds of this type, although they were not necessarily Ricketts' patented molds. (See "The Parks Canada Glass Glossary," rev. ed. (Ottawa: Canadian Parks Service, 1989), pp. 29-30.)
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24177
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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